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personages engaged in public discussions, with the following distich:

These thirty-eight great men have signed a powerful deed,
That better times to us shail very soon succeed.

The sign must have been painted soon after the adoption of the federal constitution, and I reme:nber to have stood "many a time and oft," gazing, when a boy, at the assembled patriots, particularly the venerable head and spectacles of Dr. Franklin, always in conspicuous relief. In our Thespian corps, the honor of cutting the plays, substituting new passages, casting parts, and writing couplets at the exits, was divided between myself and a fellow of infinite wit and humor, by the name of Helmbold; who subsequently became the elitor of a scandalous little paper, called the Tickler: he was a rare rascal, perpetrated all kials of calum ies, was constantly mileted in fines, so netimes imprisoned, was full of faults, which were forgotten in his coversational qualities a id dry sallies of genuine wit, particularly his Dutch stories. After years of siag'ar vicissitu les, Helmbold joined the army as a common soldier, foug it bravely during the late war, obtinel a con mission, and died. Our little company soon dwindled away; the expenses were too heavy for our pockets; our writings and pe for nances were sufficiently wretched, but as the audience was ad nitted without cost, they were to polite to express any disapprobatio. We recordel all our doings in a little weekly piper, p iblishe 1, I believe, by Jenny Riddle, at the corier of Chestnut al Third street, opposite the tavern kept by that sturly old le nocrat, Israel Israel.

Frɔn a bɔy, I was a regular attendant of the Chestnut Street Theatre, during the mange neat of Wignell and Reinagle, and male great e forts to compass the purchase of a season ticket, which I obtained generally of the treasurer, George Davis, for $13. Our habits through life are frequently governed and directed by our early steps. I sel lo n missed a night; and always retired to bell, after witnessing a good play, graŝifie land improve l: ad thus, probably, escaped the hauts of taverns, and the pursuits of depravel pleasures, which too frequently allure and destroy our young men; hence I was always the firm friend of the dra na, and had an undo ibted right to oppose my example through life to the horror and hostility expressed by setarians to play and play-houses generally. Independent of several of your plays which hal obtained possession of the stage, and were duly i corporated in the legitimate dra na, the first call to support the productio is of a fellow towasman, was, I think, Barker's opera of the "Indian Princess." Charles Ingersoll had previously written a tragedy, a very able pro luction for a very you g man, which was supported by all the "good society;" but Barker who was one of us," an amiable and intelligent young fellow, who owed nothing to here litary rank, though his father was a Whig, and a soldier of the Revolution, was in reality a fine spirited poet, a patriotic ode writer, and finally a gallant soldier of the late war. The managers give Barker an excellent chance with all his plays, and he hal merit and popularity to give them in return full houses.

About this time, I ventured to attempt a little melo-drama, under the title of The Fortress of Sorrento, which, not having money enough to pay for printing, nor sufficient influence to have actel, I thrust the manuscript in my pocket, and having occasion to visit New York, I called in at David Longworth's Dramatic Repository one day, spoke of the little piece, and struck a bargain with him, by giving him the manuscript in return for a copy of every

play he had published, which at once furnished me with a tolerably large dramatic collection. I believe the play never was performed, and I was almost ashamed to own it; but it was my first regular attempt at dramatic composition.

In the year 1812, while in Charleston, S. C., Mr. Young requested me to write a piece for his wife's benefit. You re.nember her, no doubt; reinarkable as she was for her personal beauty and amiable deportment, it would have been very ungallant to have refused, particularly as he requested that it should be a "breeches part," to use a green-room term, though she was equally attractive in every character. Poor Mrs. Young! she died last year in Philadelphia. When she first arrived in New York, fron London, it was difficult to conceive a more perfect beauty; her complexion was of dazzling whiteness, her golden hair and ruddy complexion, figure somewhat embonpoint, and graceful carriage, made her a great favorite. I soon produced the little piece, which was called Paul and Alexis, or the Orphans of the Rhine. I was, at that period, a very active politician, and my political opponents did me the hoor to go to the theatre the night it was performed, for the purpose of hissing it, which was not attempted until the curtain fell, and the piece was successful. After three years' absence in Europe aid Africa, I saw the same piece performed at the Park under the title of The Wandering Boys, which even now holds possession of the stage. It seems Mr. Young sent the manuscript to London, where the title was change 1, and the bantling cut up, altered, and co isiderably improved.

About this time, John Miller, the American bookseller in London, paid us a visit. Among the pas sengers in the same ship was a fine English girl of great tale it and promise, Miss Leesugg, afterwards Mrs. Hackett. She was engage at the Park as a singer, and Phillips, who was here about the same periol, fulfilling a most successful engagement, was decided and unqualified in his a miratio of her tale.it. Every one took an interest in her success: she was gay, kind-hearted, and popular, always in excellent spirits, and always perfect. Anxious for her success, I ventured to write a play for her benefit, a..d in three days finished the patriotic piece of She would be a Soldier, or the Battle of Chippewa, which, I was happy to find, produced her an excellent house. Mrs. Hackett retired from the stage after her marriage, and lost six or seven years of profitable and unrivalled engagement.

"After this play, I became in a manner domiciliated in the green-room. My friends, Price and Simpson, who had always been exceedingly kind and liberal, allowed me to stray about the premises like one of the family, and always anxious for their success, I ventured upon another attempt for a holyday occasion, and produced Marion, or the Hero of Lake George. It was played on the 25th of November-Evacuation day, and I bustled about anong my military friends, to raise a party in support of a military play, and what with generals, staff officers, rank and file, the Park Theatre was so crammed, that not a word of the play was heard, which was a very fortunate affair for the author. The managers presented me with a pair of handsome silver pitchers, which I still retain as a memento of their good will and friendly consideration. You must bear in mind that while I was thus employed in occasional attempts at play-writing, I was engaged in editing a daily journal, and in all the fierce con tests of political strife; I had, therefore, but little time to devote to all that study and reflection so essential to the success of dramatic composition.

My next piece, I believe, was written for the

benefit of a relative and friend, who wanted something to bring a house; and as the struggle for liberty in Greece was at that period the prevailing excitement, I finished the melo-drama of The Grecian Captive, which was brought out with all the advantages of good scenery and music. As a 46 good house" was of more consequence to the actor than fame to the author, it was resolved that the hero of the piece should make his appearance on an elephant, and the heroine on a cainel, which were procured from a neighboring menagerie, and the tout ensemble was sufficiently imposing, only it happened that the huge elephant, in shaking his skin, so rocked the castle on his back, that the Grecian general nearly lost his balance, and was in imminent danger of coming down from his "high estate," to the infiite merriment of the audience. On this occasion, to use another significant phrase, a "gag" was hit upon of a new character altogether. The play was printed, and each auditor was presented with a copy gratis, as he entered the house. Figure to yourself a thousand people in a theatre, each with a book of the play in hand-imagine the turning over a thousand leaves simultaneously, the buzz and fluttering it produced, and you will readily believe that the actors entirely forgot their parts, and even the equanimity of the elephant and camel were essentially disturbed.

My last appearance as a dramatic writer was in another national piece, called The Siege of Tripoli, which the managers persuaded me to bring out for my own benefit, being my first attempt to derive any profit from dramatic efforts. The piece was elegantly got up-the house crowded with beauty and fashion-everything went off in the happiest

manner; when a short time after the audience had retired, the Park Theatre was discovered to be on fire, and in a short time was a heap of ruins. This conflagration burnt out all my dramatic fire and energy, since which I have been, as you well know, peaceably employed in settling the affairs of the nation, and mildly engaged in the political differences and disagreements which are so fruitful in our great state.*

I still, however, retain a warm interest for the success of the drama, and all who are entitled to success engaged in sustaining it, and to none greater than to yourself, who has done more, in actual labor and successful efforts, than any man in America. That you may realize all you have promised yourself, and all that you are richly entitled to, is the sincere wish of Dear sir,

WM. DUNLAP, ESQ.

Your friend and servant,
M. M. NOAH.

FRANKLIN COLLEGE, GA.

DR. CHURCH, the president of this institution, which is situated at Athens, Georgia, in A Discourse delivered before the Historical Society of the state, has thus traced the progress of education in that region.

"The first constitution of Georgia was adopted the 5th of February, 1777, only a few months after the Declaration of Independence. The 54th section of this constitution declares, Schools shall be erected in each county, and supported at the general expense of the state.' This is an

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The author does not add, which was the fact, that the proceeds of this fatal benefit evening which he received, amounting to the considerable sum of nearly two thousand dollars, were the next day given to the actors, and others, who had suffered by the fire.

important record in the history of our education. On the 31st of July, 1783, the Legislature appropriated 1000 acres of land to each county for the support of free schools. In 1784, a few months after the ratification of the treaty of peace, by which our national independence was acknowledged, the legislature, again in session at Savannah, passed an act, appropriating 40,000 acres of land for the endowment of a coliege or university. This act commences with the remarkable preamble: Whereas, the encouragement of religion and learning is an object of great importance to any community, and must tend to the prosperity and advantage of the same.'

"In 1785, the charter of the university was granted, the preamble to which would do honor to any legislature, and will stand a monument to the wisdom and patriotism of those who framed, and of those who adopted it.

"As it is the distinguishing happiness of free governments that civil order should be the result of choice and not necessity, and the common wishes of the people become the laws of the land, their public prosperity and even existence very much depends upon suitably forming the minds and morals of their citizens. When the minds of the people in general are viciously disposed and unprincipled, and their conduct disorderly, a free government will be attended with greater confusions, and evils more horrid than the wild uncultivated state of nature. It can only be happy perly directed and their manners regulated. where the public principles and opinions are pro

"This is an influence beyond the stretch of laws and punishments, and can be claimed only by religion and education. It should, therefore, be among the first objects of those who wish well to the national prosperity, to encourage and support the principles of religion and morality; and early to place the youth under the forming hand of society, that, by instruction, they may be moulded to the love of virtue and good order. Sending them abroad to other countries for education will not answer the purposes, is too humiliating an acknowledgment of the ignorance or inferiority of our own, and will always be the cause of so great foreign attachments that, upon principles of policy, it is inadmissible.'

"In 1792, an act was passed appropriating one thousand pounds for the endowment of an Academy in each county.

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In 1798, a third constitution was adopted. The 13th section of the 4th article declares: The arts and sciences shall be patronized in one or more seminaries of learning.'

"In 1817, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars were appropriated to the support of poor schools. In 1818, every 10th and 100th lot of land in seven new counties were appropriated to the cause of education, and in 1821, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars were set apart for the support of county academies."*

The selection of the site for the university was peculiar. It was located on a tract of ground, on what was then the remote border of population on the north-western boundary of the territory, in reference to the future growth of the state

* A Discourse delivered before the Georgia Historical So. ciety, on the occasion of its Sixth Anniversary, Feb. 12, 1945,

rather than present convenience. In addition to the forty thousand acres originally granted by the legislature for the support of the university, Governor Milledge generously presented to the institution, at an expense of four thousand dollars, a tract of land of seven hundred acres, better adapted for the site, on which Franklin College was established in 1801. It was some time before these endowments of land became available for the support of the institution. They have now provided an ample fund. In 1816 the lands of the original grant were sold, and one hundred thousand dollars were invested in bank stock, guaranteed by the state to yield an annual interest of eight per cent. From the lands purchased by Governor Milledge, the college has received, by the sale of lots at various times, some thirty thousand dollars, twenty thousand of which are invested as a permanent fund.

At the outset, the institution was embarrassed for want of ready pecuniary means; but its difficulties were met with spirit by the leading men of the state, among whom Dr. Church enumerates in his Discourse, Baldwin, Jackson, Milledge, Early, the Houstons, the Habershams, Clay, Few, Brownson, Taliaferro, Stephens, Walton, Jones, and Gov. Jackson,

The line of Presidents has been-the Rev. Dr. Josiah Meigs, from 1801 to 1811; the Rev. Dr. John Brown, from 1811 to 1816; the Rev. Dr. Robert Finley, who died after a year's incumbency, in 1817; the Rev. Dr. Moses Waddel, from 1819 to 1829; and the Rev. Dr. Alonzo Church, from that time. Dr. Meigs had been Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy in Yale; Dr. Brown had held the chair of Moral Philosophy in Columbia College, South Carolina; Dr. Waddel, one of the most popular teachers of the South, was a native of North Carolina. passed forty-five years as a teacher, dying in 1840 at the age of seventy.

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Previously to the sale of the lands in 1816, the college was closed for three years, in consequence of the war and the want of funds. Its whole number of graduates to the close of 1852 appears by the catalogue to be six hundred and ninety-nine.

The college buildings have cost some eighty thousand dollars. The library consists of over twelve thousand volumes, and there is an excellent philosophical, chemical, and astronomical apparatus, with a valuable cabinet of minerals, and a neat botanic garden.

The college is under the charge of twentyeight trustees, elected at first by the legislature, but all vacancies are filled by the trustees. The Senate of the State and Board of Trustees constitute the Senatus Academicus of the state, and all institutions of learning receiving funds from the state must report to the Senatus, of which the Governor of the State is president, at each meeting of the Legislature.

Of the other college institutions in the state, the Presbyterian institution of Oglethorpe University, situated near Milledgeville, was founded in 1837. It grew out of a manual labor school under the direction of the Rev. Dr. C. P. Beman, who became the first president of the college in 1838. On his retirement in 1840, he was succeeded by the present incumbent, the Rev. Dr. S. K. Talmage. The number of students by the

catalogue of 1853-4 is sixty-four. Its alumni, from 1838 to 1853, have been one hundred and thirty-eight. The president is Professor of Ancient Languages and Belles Lettres.

Mercer University is a Baptist institution, situated at Penfield; and Emory College, at Oxford, is attached to the Methodist Church. The former has a theological course of instruction. It dates from 1838. Emory College was founded in 1837. Oxford, the town in which it is located, is a pleasant rural village with a permanent population of some six hundred persons, who have chosen that residence almost exclusively with reference to the college. The present head of Mercer is Dr. N. M. Crawford; of Emory, the Rev. Dr. P. S. Pierce.

In August 7, 1851, the semi-centennial anniversary of Franklin College was celebrated, and an address delivered in the college chapel at Athens before the Society of Alumni by the Hon. George R. Gilmer, who took for his subject "The Literary Progress of Georgia." In this discourse, which was printed at the time, will be found a genial picturesque narrative, with numerous anecdotes of the early days of Georgia, sketches of the character of her citizens and of their means of education, with the stray Ichabod Cranes who preceded the foundation of her academies and colleges, which have since become the distinguished ornaments of the state.

ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, MARYLAND.

IN 1782 an act of assembly in Maryland was passed for founding a seminary on the Eastern shore. The charter of incorporation required that a sum of money should be raised by contribution equal to five hundred pounds for each county in that region. Ten thousand pounds were thus collected in five months. The college went into operation at Chestertown, and took the name of Washington, who was one of the contributors to its funds. Its first annual Commencement was held May 16, 1783. Washington visited the college the next year. At the same time, in 1784, an act was passed for founding a college on the western shore, and constituting the same, together with Washington College, one institution. This was incorporated by the name of the Visitors and Governors of St. John's College, and a grant of. seventeen hundred pounds "annually and for ever," was made by the legislature. There was also a subscription of ten thousand pounds, of which two thousand were subscribed by the Rector and Visitors of the Annapolis school. A board was organized, and its first meeting held in 1786. The joint institution was opened at Annapolis in 1789, and Dr. John McDowell was chosen as Professor of Mathematics, and afterwards as Principal. In 1792 six professors and teachers were constantly employed in the college, which was well attended, and sent forth numbers of the distinguished men of the state. In 1805, the legislature, by an illiberal act of economy, withdrew the annual fund solemnly granted at the founding of the college. This was for the time a virtual breaking up of the institution. Efforts were made for the restoration of the grant. In 1811 the legislature appropriated one thousand dollars, and in 1821 granted a lottery the proceeds of which were twenty thousand dollars. In 1832 two thousand dollars per annum were secured to

the college by the legislature. In the meantime the succession of Principals had included, after Dr. McDowell, the Rev. Drs. Bethel Judd, Henry Lyon Davis, and William Rafferty. In 1831, about the time of the revival of the college affairs, the Rev. Dr. Hector Humphreys, the present incumbent, was elected Principal. The classes increased, new accommodation was required, and in 1835 a new college building was erected; an historical address being delivered at the ceremony of laying the corner-stone by John Johnson, one of the Visitors and Governors, who thus alluded to some of the advantages and associations of the site:-"If education is to be fostered in Mary

St. John's College, Maryland. land as its importance demands, no location more favorable for its cultivation could be selected than this. The building now existing, and that in the course of construction, are seated in a plain of great extent and unrivalled beauty. The climate of the place is unsurpassed for salubrity, and whilst the moral contamination incident to the vicinity of a large town is not to be dreaded, the presence of the seat of Government is full of advantages. Everything conspires to render St. John's a favorite of the State. It was built up by the purchasers of our freedom whilst the storms of the Revolution were yet rocking the battlements of the Republic. It has enrolled among its alumni some of the brightest ornaments of the nation, and continued its usefulness to the last, though frowned upon and discouraged by the parent which created it. It is endeared by its origin; venerable for its age; illustrious for the great minds nurtured within its walls, and entitled to our gratitude for yet striving to do good."

During the administration of Dr. Humphreys the prosperity of the college, in the number of students, has greatly increased. New departments of study have been opened, and new Professorships and college buildings projected.

C. S. RAFINESQUE.

C. S. RAFINESQUE was born, he informs us at the outset of his Life of Travels and Researches, at Galata, a suburb of Constantinople, in 1784. His father was a Levant merchant from Marseilles. While an infant he was taken to that city by sea, and says that it was owing to this early voyage that he was ever after exempt from sea-sickness. In his seventh year his father went to China, and on his return ran into Philadelphia to escape the English cruisers, where he died of

yellow fever in 1793. Meanwhile the mother, terrified at the sans-culottes, removed with her children to Leghorn. After passing several years in various cities in the north of Italy, he was sent to the United States in 1802, with his brother. He landed at Philadelphia, visited Bartram and other naturalists, his botanical tastes having already developed themselves, and travelled a little in Pennsylvania and Delaware. He returned to Leghorn with a large stock of specimens in March, 1805, and in May of the same year sailed for Sicily, where he passed ten years in "residence and travels," engaged partly in botany, and partly in merchandise, during which he published a work, The Analysis of Nature, in the French language. In 1815 he sailed for New York, but was shipwrecked on the Long Island coast. "I lost," he says, "everything, my fortune, my share of the cargo, my collections and labors for twenty years past, my books, my manuscripts, my drawings, even my clothes-all that I possessed, except some scattered funds, and the insurance ordered in England for one third the value of my goods. The ship was a total wreck, and finally righted and sunk, after throwing up the confined air of the hold by an explosion."

He made his way to New York and presented himself to Dr. Mitchill, who introduced him to friends, and obtained a place for him as tutor to the family of Mr. Livingston on the Hudson. In 1818 he made a tour to the West, leaving the stage at Lancaster "to cross the Alleghanies on foot, as every botanist ought." He floated down the Ohio in an ark to Louisville, where he received an invitation to become Professor of Botany at Transylvania University, Lexington. After returning to Philadelphia to close his business affairs he removed to Lexington, and appears to have obtained the professorship, and performed its duties for some time. He still, however, continued his travels, lectured in various places, and endeavored to start a magazine and a botanic garden, but without success in either case. He finally established himself in Philadelphia, where he published The Atlantic Journal and Friend of Knowledge, a Cyclopadic Journal and Review. The first number is dated "Spring of 1882," and forms an octavo of thirty-six pages. "This journal," says the prospectus, "shall contain everything calculated to enlighten, instruct, and improve the mind." But eight numbers appeared. In 1836 he published Life of Travels and Lesearches, a brief narrative, furnishing little more than an itinerary of the places he visited during his almost uninterrupted peregrinations. In addition to these works he published several volumes on botany. Rafinesque died at Philadelphia, September 18, 1842.

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DANIEL DRAKE-BENJAMIN DRAKE.

DANIEL DRAKE was born at Plainfield, New Jersey, October 20, 1785; was taken while quite a youth to Mason county, Kentucky, and was brought up there. When a young man he went to Cincinnati, and studied medicine at the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, became a practitioner of medicine at Cincinnati, and attained high eminence in his profession. He was a professor and teacher of the medical science for the greater part of his life

in the schools at Cincinnati, at Philadelphia, at Lexington, Kentucky, and at Louisville, Kentucky, where he was associated with the most distinguished men of his profession. Without excelling in any of the graces of the orator, he was a most effective and popular lecturer. An original thinker, zealous, energetic, a lover of truth, he delighted in acquiring and communicating knowledge. A philanthropist, a public-spirited citizen, a man of untiring industry and indomitable energy, he spent a long and active life in constant efforts to do good. Devoted to the interests of Cincinnati, he was a zealous and active promoter of every measure for the advancement of her prosperity, and especially for her moral and intellectual improvement. His time, his pen, his personal exertions, were at all times at the service of his profession, his country, his fellow-creatures. In a long life of uncommon industry, marked by a spirit and perseverance unattainable by ordinary men, the larger portion of his time was given to the public, to benevolence, and to science.

As a writer Dr. Drake is entitled to consideration in American literature, not from the style of his compositions, which had little to recommend it, but from their useful character and scientific value. Besides his acknowledged works, he was the author of a vast number of pamphlets and newspaper essays, written to promote useful objects, all marked by great vigor and conciseness of style, and singleness of purpose. His Picture of Cincinnati, under a modest title, embraced an admirable account of the whole Miami country, and was one of the first works to attract attention

to the Ohio valley. His great work on the Diseases of the Interior Valley of North America occupied many years, and was perhaps in contemplation during the greater part of his professional life. It is a work of herculean labor,-of exertions of which few men would be capable. It covers the whole ground of the Mississippi and its tributaries, and nearly all of North America, and professes to treat of the diseases of that vast region. It is not compiled from books, nor could it be, for the subject is new. This vast mass of information is the result of the author's personal exploration, and of extensive correspondence with scientific men. During the vacations between the medical lectures, year after year, Dr. Drake travelled, taking one portion of country after another, and exploring each systematically and carefully, from the Canadian wilds to Florida and Texas. Dividing this vast region into districts, he gives a detailed topographical de cription of each, marking out distinctly its physical characteristics and peculiarities; he describes the climate, the productions, the cultivation, the habits of the people; he traces the rivers to their sources; points out the mountain ranges, the valleys, the plains everything that could affect the health of man, as a local cause, is included in his survey. Then he gives the actual diseases which he found to be prevalent in each district, the peculiar phase of the disease, with the treatment, and other interesting facts.

Dr. Daniel Drake died at Cincinnati, November 5, 1852.*

The following is a list of books written by him, with the dates of their publication:

BENJAMIN DRAKE, brother of Dr. Daniel Drake, was as marked for his benevolence and public spirit as for his literary tastes and abilities. He was born in Mason county, Kentucky, November 28, 1794, and died in Cincinnati, April 1, 1841. He was for many years editor of the Cincinnati Chronicle, a weekly literary newspaper published at Cincinnati, distinguished for its agreeable and sprightly articles, and for the courtesy, good taste, and common sense, with which it was conducted. It was particularly instrumental in promoting the prosperity of Cincinnati, by advocating all measures of improvement, and giving a public-spirited tone to public sentiment. As long as Drake lived this paper was very popular in the city and all the surrounding region. He was a most amiable, pure-minded man. His Tales from the Queen City are lively and very agreeable sketches of Western life, written with some ability, and much delicacy and taste. His Life of Tecumseh was written with great care from materials collected in Ohio and Indiana, where that distingui-hed warrior was well known, and is a valuable contribution to our national history.*

Charles D. Drake, of St. Louis, a son of Dr. Daniel Drake, born in Cincinnati, April 11, 1811, is the author of A Treatise on the Law of Suits by Attachment in the United States, an octavo volume, published in 1854.†

NICHOLAS BIDDLE.

NICHOLAS BIDDLE belonged to a family which furnished its quota to the service of the State. His father, Charles Biddle, was an active Revolutionary patriot, and held the post, at the time of his son's birth, of Vice-President of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth, when Franklin was president. His uncle, Edward Biddle, was the naval commodore who ended his career so gallantly in the affair of the Randolph.

The son and nephew, Nicholas, was born at Philadelphia, January 8, 1786. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, where he had

1810. Notices concerning Cincinnati, pp. 64, 12mo. 1815. Picture of Cincinnati, pp. 25, 12mo. 1:32. Practical Essays on Medical Education and the Medical Profession in the United States, pp. 104, 12mo. 1832. A Practical Treatise on the History, Prevention, and Treatment of Epidemic Cholera, designed both for the Profession and the People, pp. 180, 12mo. 1850. A Systematic Treatise, Historical, Etiological, and Practical, on the Principal Diseases of the Interior Valley of North America, as they appear in the Caucasian, African, Indian, and Esquimaux varieties of its popu lation, pp. 878. 8vo.

1854. The second volume of the same, posthumously published, pp. 955, 8vo.

He edited, for many years, very ably and assiduously the Western Journal of Medical Science, published at Cincinnati, and contributed largely to its pages.

The following is a complete list of his writings:1827. Cincinnati in 1826, by B. Drake and E. D. Mansfield, pp. 100, 12mo.

1830-33. Between these years he prepared a book on the subject of Agriculture, which was published anonymously. It was a compilation, and contained probably 3300 pages, 12mo.

1889. The Life and Adventures of Black Hawk: with Sketches of Keokuk, the Sac and Fox Indians, and the late Black Hawk War, pp. 288, 12mo.

1888. Tales and Sketches from the Queen City, pp. 180, 12mo. 1840. Life of General William Henry Harrison, a small volume, of perhaps 250 pages, prepared jointly by B. Drake and Charles S. Todd.

1841. Life of Tecumseh, and his brother the Prophet, with a Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians, pp. 235, 12mo.

We are indebted for this notice of Drake and his family to Mr. James Hall of Cincinnati.

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